0 past simple and past participle of trawl --
1 to pull a large, cone-shaped net through the sea at a deep level behind a special boat in order to catch fish: --
2 to search among a large number or many different places in order to find people or information you want: --
We knew that the ground had been trawled over so many times, and we doubted whether the savings were there.
No one who knows anything about these matters would think of buying trawled fish if he could get fish caught by lines by inshore fishermen.
The resignations the other week have been trawled over extensively.
I understand that claim, but it presupposes that the police have not already trawled extensively for further complaints.
We trawled over this subject at considerable length a few weeks ago when we considered a statutory instrument.
I would not want them to be trawled in the net that we are now talking about.
I have it on the authority of the fish trade that it is easy to tell by their appearance the fish which are illegally trawled.
All possible opinions were trawled, and all alternative routes were examined.
